"music" in seven languages
Meaningmusic
Spanish
música
/ˈmusika/
fem.learned
French
musique
/myzik/
fem.learned
Italian
musica
/ˈmuzika/
fem.learned
Portuguese
música
/ˈmuzikɐ/
fem.learned
Romanian
muzică
/ˈmuzikə/
fem.learned
Catalan
música
/ˈmuzikə/
fem.learned
English
music
/ˈmjuzɪk/
from Latin/French · Old French musique, from Latin MŪSICA
English → ItalianmusicmusicaCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
MŪSICAM‘the art of the Muses (from Greek mousikḗ)’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Music is the Muses' art, and museum their shrine. Note the stress: Spanish and Italian keep it on the first syllable (música, musica), as Latin did.
English relatives: musical, musician, muse, museum
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In a sentence
- es¿Qué música te gusta?
- frQuelle musique aimes-tu ?
- itChe musica ti piace?
- ptDe que música você gosta?
- roCe muzică îți place?
- caQuina música t'agrada?
- enWhat music do you like?